Avatar
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Includes original theatrical release, special edition re-release and collector's extended cut.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2009.

Special features: Exclusive alternate opening on earth; Capturing Avatar featurette; over 45 min. of deleted scenes; Family audio track available; and more.

Title from title frame.

Director of photography, Mauro Fiore ; editors, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron ; music, James Horner.

Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, Cch Pounder, Sigourney Weaver.

Experience the spectacular world of James Cameron's Avatar as never before with this collector's ed. release. Watch all three versions of the film, than treat your senses to an unprecedented beyond the scenes look at the greatest adventure of all time! When his twin brother dies in an accident, paraplegic ex-Marine Jake Sully takes his place on a mission to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. Sully works with a group of scientists cloning near-duplicates of the planet's inhabitants, the Na'vi, whom specially trained scientists can control mentally to foster peace between the corporation and the natives. But when Sully finds himself lost on Pandora and trapped in a Na'vi clone body, a beautiful Na'vi woman saves his life and Sully discovers the corporation's plan to mine the mineral--at any cost.

CHV rating: 14A; for violence, not recommend for children.

Extended version: Unrated; contains material different from the PG-13-rated version.

Theatrical version: Rating: PG-13; for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; dual layer; Dolby Digital 5.1 (English), THX Dolby surround (English, Spanish, and French).

English, French or Spanish dialogue with optional Spanish subtitles and optional English subtitles for the deaf or hard of hearing; closed-captioned in English.

Academy Award winner, 2010: Best Art Direction (Production design: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg ; Set decoration: Kim Sinclair) ; Best Cinematography (Mauro Fiore) ; Best Visual Effects (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones)